LA-based artist and photographer Bootsy Holler kicked off her book tour this week at Skylight Books for MAKiNG iT, a powerful document of Seattle’s indie and post-grunge scene from 1992 to 2008.

Within a brief purple patch in one close-knit community, bands like Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Nirvana all burst into ...

Below are photos of grunge stars before and after getting famous. Almost all of the bands we associate with the Seattle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A picture of Soundgarden taken in Japan in 1994. Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil says the bands who made up the Seattle grunge ...

The problem with rock operas is, well, very often they simply don't ... rock. Take the much acclaimed "Rent," for example. "Musically speaking, it's very traditional," says Seattle musician and ...

Love it or hate it, the early ‘90s alternative rock boom was the last time loud guitar-based rock held the attention of both the record buying public and the music industrial complex. Nirvana and the ...

From its gritty birth in Seattle's underground to its resurgence in 2026 playlists, grunge's raw emotion and authenticity continue to inspire both established and emerging artists. Even underrated ...

Before becoming one of the pioneering acts of the Seattle rock scene, Soundgarden took aim at hair metal in their song 'Big ...

Chris Cornell truly is one of the fathers of grunge. ET spoke to the Soundgarden frontman -- who died on Wednesday at age 52 -- in 1992 about his band's place in the burgeoning Seattle music scene, ...

"Touch me, I'm sick!" When screeched by frontman Mark Arm, the titular line from Mudhoney's signature 1988 single can almost be seen as a rallying cry for the entire Seattle grunge scene that the band ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil will chronicle his life as a son of immigrants and rock pioneer in his new book, A Screaming Life: Into ...

Grunge really took off in the 90s, but there were a handful of grunge bands who were drafting the blueprints of the genre in the late 80s as well. Many of these bands, of course, started in Seattle, ...